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Election Announcement (until 5th May 2022)

Friends in high places

Which past events now make a little more sense following the revelation that the borough’s most prolific property developer is a high profile Tory with ready access to Councillors including the Planning Committee Vice-Chairman?

Land slipEveryone knows by now that Bexley Council did nothing when the borough’s oldest pub was torn down. They ignored reports that adjacent property was in danger of a land slip and there was no protection from falling masonry for passers-by.

When the Health & Safety Executive took an interest and requested evidence Bexley Council chose not to cooperate and the H&SE had to rely on photographs taken from this website and social media. Incredibly, H&SE had to threaten legal action before Bexley Council began to play ball.

Bexley Council’s own surveyor reported that an edifice constructed in the garden of 238 Woolwich Road encroached on Lesnes Abbey Woods but Councillors quietly overlooked that finding.

The massive concrete bunker was built without planning permission but with only minor modifications it was retrospectively permitted. It was such a monstrosity that the occupants of 240 were forced from their home which became virtually unsalable. As such it fell into the hands of the same property developer.

In Heron Hill the same developer put forward a plan for a new Care Home but it was rejected on the grounds that Bexley didn’t need more Care Home places. Virtually the same plan was resubmitted and suddenly Bexley did need Care Homes. Isn’t that what good friends are for?

 


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